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Affluence Suburbs Flow Abundance Wealth City's Northern Huge

word affluence
definition An abundance of wealth.
eg_sentence The affluence of the city's northern suburbs is indicated by the huge houses there.
explanation Affluence comes from the Latin verb affluere, “to flow abundantly.” Thus, someone or something blessed with affluence has received an incoming flood of riches. Since the affluent residents of suburbs often work in the central city but pay taxes back home, the wealth of some metropolitan areas tends to flow in one direction—out.
IPA ˈæfluəns

Tags: mwvb::unit:20, mwvb::unit:20:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki

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